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Good Karma To Lease 880; WCBS News Programming To End
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We were discussing the programming on 880…
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Thanks! I did recorded the show this morning, and I enjoyed it! I started recording after leaving the house at 9AM and leave it record until I came home at 3:30PM and everything was running perfectly with no buffering. I did some editing using Audacity to remove the CBS Radio hourly newscast to make the show perfectly. It was a great show and a retrospective of WCBS “Newsradio 88” from the past 57 years.
This Sunday, I will record the final 24 hours of WCBS “Newsradio 88” from 12AM early Sunday morning, right up until 12AM early Monday morning where the station signs off forever. I will work on it this weekend.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Dutifully filed under "who cares?"
This really makes little sense. But I'm sure it does make a lot of dollars for Audacy, which is restructuring in bankruptcy. Bankruptcy of ideas as well as revenue. The Philly mafia led by Oliviero is running the company's NY ops into the ground just as it did in the COBL. Two news stations? Why not? How many different MUSIC stations are there? WINS and WCBS each deliver their own flavor of news, more than what can be said for all the jukebox/craptalk that permeates the New York's FM dial.
For the uninitiated, what is COBL?
Philly, the "City of Basketball Love"
Yes, it partially explains the situation with KFRC. The rest of the story is that CBS/Infinity (which by then had acquired KFRC) didn't want to give up the calls, feeling they were legendary in the SFBA market, which translated to market value, and CBS didn't want to risk relinquishing them and having a competitor file for them and launch a competing station using "KFRC" against them. And the logical move, returning "KCBS-FM" to San Francisco, wasn't going to happen since they were paired with KCBS-TV down in L.A. So the KFRC calls remained parked on 106.9 after the Free FM experiment/debacle and the recreation of '70s-era KFRC music, and the only times they've appeared on-air in the "KCBS simulcast"era is in the TOH legal ID.
Don't you mean BROTHERLY?
If one does not make a profit, that is why. And it appears that this is the basic reason.
"Music" is not a format. AC, R&B, Country, CHR, Rhythmic CHR, Hot AC, Classic Hits, Classic Rock, Oldies, Adult Hits, Tropical, Spanish AC, Urban AC, Classical, Jazz are music FORMATS.
Two all news stations is like when we had four Beautiful Music stations in the market... each had a different music blend, flow, announcing style... but it was the same format.
That is your opinion. Yet about 85% of all adults in NYC use radio every week.
Should we start a separate thread for that?
Who cares?Should we start a separate thread for that?
I miss the 5-second spots on WCBS for... well, let me quote them...
"If you're looking for a Ford [pause] go to Tri-State Ford dot com ."
[did that address include or omit the hyphen?]
And speaking of spots, I just heard on WCBS's stream a commercial (independent from the air traffic) for the Philadelphia Gas Works. Imagine - a Philly commercial on the stream of a major NY station...
"If you're looking for a Ford [pause] go to Tri-State Ford dot com ."
[did that address include or omit the hyphen?]
And speaking of spots, I just heard on WCBS's stream a commercial (independent from the air traffic) for the Philadelphia Gas Works. Imagine - a Philly commercial on the stream of a major NY station...
A lot of the ads are geo targeted, you’re not hearing what’s going out over the air. Here, in an Audacy market, I can listen to an Audacy station in another market and I’ll hear the local ads they run on their stations here. iHeart does the same thing.
Earlier in the year, I was able to stream an Audacy station while traveling in the UK. Don’t know if it was luck, but it worked. As did Pandora.
I’ll be vacationing in Italy next week. Perhaps I’ll try to stream on the Audacy app when I’m back in my hotel.
Correct. Ad insertion technology has been around for at least 25 years now. I hear spots for St. Louis and Kansas City businesses when I listen to Audacy stations from out of market. I get local and semi local ads across most streaming stations, whether I use an aggregator or listen off the station's website/app. Seems like someone told me that my local NBC affiliate was actually the party selling most of the ads on iHeart.
If you have a US VPN, you should be able to stream Audacy and iHeart from pretty much anywhere in the world. Not sure if it works all over the globe, but, if you have AT&T Wireless, you automatically have a VPN on your smartphone unless you turn it off. I will also say, having had to turn it off before to sync my garage door openers with my internet, turning it off is a pain. You really have to know what you're doing to turn it off; it requires about three different settings to be changed, at least one of which is in a different spot.
The rest of the rest of the story is this:
From October 27, 2008 until 2022, KFRC continued to exist as KFRC-FM-HD2. It continued the classic hits format that constituted the last music programming on the main channel, though without voice-tracking. While there were no personalities, there were stop sets, using PSAs in the place of commercial spots. The final KFRC logo also showed up on radios that supported that HD feature. It ended when Audacy decided to end most of the HD-2 channels across the company.
For a few years in the early 2010s, the KFRC call letters were parked on the station at 1550.
If you already have the app, it can work intermittently internationally, but you can't get the app outside the US.
Audacy websites just show a blank page with the uninformative message that "this site isn't currently available in the EU" (presumably they don't keep up with the news).
It all works with even the crappiest free VPN.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Actually, they could have moved them back to S.F. if they had wanted to. Here in L.A. they have only been TOH mentions, going all the way back to 1993, when 93.1 was Classic Rock as "Arrow 93".
But as you said, they needed to put the KFRC calls somewhere in order not to lose them. (For all the good that has done, since enough time ha passed that those calls no longer have any kind of emotional attachment to the average listener.)
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